Try to pretend that you are someone without an ideology or agenda. Doesn't the obvious inequality of the graph speak for itself? It's not even close. You might go on to say it's misleading, because of other factors (e.g., that the top guys bring so much more to the economy), but you cannot say it is a big mystery how someone can think something smells fishy here.
That is an interesting article about Bush's tax cuts, but as you know, tax rates used to be much, much higher for the rich, before Reagan, and as you have argued before, the surface-level of tax law doesn't really tell you the whole story. Obviously, the end result of those taxes has not been to lessen inequality. The rich can get around taxes, right?
It doesn't just "look" like there is massive inequality. There is massive inequality. The only question is whether you think it is justice or not. As I recall, you believe it is justice, or if it is not, it is because CEOs and such are still undervalued and we shouldn't have a minimum wage that artificially boosts the wages of laborers, etc.
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Date: 2014-07-28 10:16 pm (UTC)Try to pretend that you are someone without an ideology or agenda. Doesn't the obvious inequality of the graph speak for itself? It's not even close. You might go on to say it's misleading, because of other factors (e.g., that the top guys bring so much more to the economy), but you cannot say it is a big mystery how someone can think something smells fishy here.
That is an interesting article about Bush's tax cuts, but as you know, tax rates used to be much, much higher for the rich, before Reagan, and as you have argued before, the surface-level of tax law doesn't really tell you the whole story. Obviously, the end result of those taxes has not been to lessen inequality. The rich can get around taxes, right?
It doesn't just "look" like there is massive inequality. There is massive inequality. The only question is whether you think it is justice or not. As I recall, you believe it is justice, or if it is not, it is because CEOs and such are still undervalued and we shouldn't have a minimum wage that artificially boosts the wages of laborers, etc.